Thanks to a sustained record of prudent economic management and reform, Uganda has maintained high economic growth and reduction in poverty for more than a decade.
... See More + However, the fast-growing and youthful population poses serious challenges for sustained poverty reduction and improvement of living standards, through quality and equitable services, productive employment and efficient urbanization. The International Development Association's support for the government work on these issues has helped across a range of fronts, from connecting Ugandans to clean water and sanitation to increasing the speed of the registration of a new business or property.
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Thanks to a sustained record of prudent economic management and reform, Uganda has maintained high economic growth and reduction in poverty for more than a decade.
... See More + However, the fast-growing and youthful population poses serious challenges for sustained poverty reduction and improvement of living standards, through quality and equitable services, productive employment and efficient urbanization. The International Development Association's support for the government work on these issues has helped across a range of fronts, from connecting Ugandans to clean water and sanitation to increasing the speed of the registration of a new business or property.
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Thanks to a sustained record of prudent economic management and reform, Uganda has maintained high economic growth and reduction in poverty for more than a decade.
... See More + However, the fast-growing and youthful population poses serious challenges for sustained poverty reduction and improvement of living standards, through quality and equitable services, productive employment and efficient urbanization. The International Development Association's support for the government work on these issues has helped across a range of fronts, from connecting Ugandans to clean water and sanitation to increasing the speed of the registration of a new business or property.
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Uganda has the typical characteristics of a "bottom billion" country. It is landlocked and, until recently, resource scarce, and neighboring countries are poor and many are prone to conflict.
... See More + Uganda is also ethnically diverse, which increases a country's risk of divisions and conflict. There is a perception of increasing corruption at all levels. Despite a strong anticorruption legal framework, Uganda has struggled to translate its anti-corruption laws into practice. There have been four high-level corruption cases during the last two years, none of which has been fully resolved so far. Local public opinion polls indicate that petty corruption is widespread and increasing. In addition, Uganda suffers from pervasive "quiet corruption"-the failure of public servants to deliver goods or services paid for by governments-such as unchecked teacher and health worker absenteeism. The perception of deteriorating governance is tarnishing Uganda's image as a development model. The recent discovery of oil brings both development opportunities and challenges. Global experience demonstrates that natural resource wealth in the context of poverty and weak institutions increases the probability of corruption, patronage, instability, and conflict. Whether Uganda's oil is a blessing or curse depends largely on the establishment of an institutional framework that ensures fair and equitable distribution of resource rents and appropriate consideration of economic, social, and environmental issues.
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